When I was a kid in New Orleans, at night I would see roaches scatter from the front porch. I would also smell a beautiful smell that wasn't there in the daytime when the roaches weren't around. My science teacher gave a talk about pheronomes and I was convinced that was why the roaches smelled so good. It wasn't until years later that I learned my grandmother had night blooming jasmine growing around the porch and was a little sorry to realize that roaches didn't really have much redeeming social value.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I was once told that white roaches where that color because they just got married.— Andrew
- I used to think that roaches were aliens because it was hard to kill them. I'm still not so sure I was wrong.— Dev
- I believed that Reindeer loved popcorn, and so I would cook a bag and scatter it on the porch.— Popcornsanta
- I used to believe that when I farted, i could smell up all the stench before anyone else could smell it.— Tim
- If I had bad gas I would sometimes start to run as I farted to escape the smell. It didn't always work.— Sammy
- I used to believe that I could smell when it was going to snow.
(I still can!)— sw